Paulo Coelho Quotes

God has placed within each of us an immeasurable, unique gift. It is our duty to live that out to the full and to encourage one another with gusto.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

I believe every one of us has a gift, I believe every one of us human beings has a path in this life, and it is up to each of us, through circumstance, through knowledge, through awareness, through luck - and luck does play a huge part - to hopefully achieve that path and walk the path and realize the gift.

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.